Tag: Culled Culture
Charli XCX’s Most Ambitious “Mixtape” Yet: Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat
Being that the intention of Brat was always to get back to Charli XCX’s musical roots (especially after her intentionally hyper-commercial album, Crash), it seemed [Read More…]
Doreen Savage Gives Marty Mendelson A Run for His Dolls
On July 9, 2000, a theoretically small role in the “No Ifs, Ands or Butts” episode of Sex and the City left an indelible imprint [Read More…]
The Substance Joins The Ranks of Death Becomes Her With Regard to the Lengths Women Feel They Need to Go In Order to Stay Young
As far as movies about female aging go, Death Becomes Her has long been the gold standard (as Sabrina Carpenter recently wanted to remind in [Read More…]
On Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn as An Exemplification of Being a Poverty/Mental Illness Tourist
While people have chosen to lambast Joker: Folie à Deux for all the wrong reasons (mainly because it doesn’t fit in any way with the [Read More…]
Madonna Endures a New Era of Survivor’s Guilt
Throughout her life, Madonna has frequently talked about having survivor’s guilt. Namely, when it comes to all the people she lost in the 1980s to [Read More…]
Bad Romance: Joker: Folie à Deux Shows That Projection in Relationships Always Results in Dashed Expectations
In many ways, the real reason the sequel to Joker is called Joker: Folie à Deux has little to do with a shared delusion between [Read More…]
Joker: Folie à Deux: The Symbol Becomes More Powerful Than the Real Person Behind It
It was Todd Phillips himself who said that Joker was never intended to have a sequel. In many regards, that’s not what Joker: Folie à [Read More…]
Beyond Brat Summer, Or: Why It Was A Summer of Americana Via The Bikeriders and “Tough”
In many ways, Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders and Lana Del Rey x Quavo’s “Tough” achieve the same dichotomous thing: acknowledging the death of what America [Read More…]
Kylie Minogue Serves Her Version of Britney Spears’ “Lucky” Video With “Lights Camera Action”
Proving that female pop stars only get better with age (even if Madonna already did that starting as early as 1998), Kylie Minogue is having [Read More…]
Love Is An Invisible String In Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather” Video
For someone who is often seen as an “anti-Taylor,” the motif presented in Billie Eilish’s latest visual offering from Hit Me Hard and Soft, “Birds [Read More…]